Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender . |
| 2 | By the time we have adequate records , the craft guild can be seen emerging from the lodge of craftsmen working together on a project . |
| 3 | Thousands of bats squirmed hideously on the ceilings . |
| 4 | High exhaustivity tends to be a feature of databases indexed automatically on the basis of the text of the document . |
| 5 | Children eyed the closed Essoldo ; a handful of golfers moved briskly on the golf-course . |
| 6 | A different , and in some respects more constructive , approach adopted by some international lawyers ( especially Cassese , 1979 ) points to the weakness in terms of effective enforcement of a prohibition of weapons based only on the argument that they can not be used without violation of the general principles of the humanitarian law of war . |
| 7 | As the years passed , a rabbi from the New York yeshiva was imported to instruct the Reichmanns ' children in a rigorous six-day schedule of studies based largely on the Talmud . |
| 8 | What imagination anywhere could not respond to the image of strangers galloping hard on a moonswept night towards such high turrets ? |
| 9 | Because the forms of bodies depended entirely on the will of God , it was impious , as well as impossible , to construct a science of nature based on preconceived opinion . |
| 10 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 11 | ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too . |
| 12 | Manufacturers ran up their mills , factories and works on the edge of existing towns , and their workers were housed in streets of terrace-houses built rapidly on the vacant ground all around the factory . |
| 13 | Suggested explanations for this pattern of results focus predominantly on the highly polysemous nature of the English language . |
| 14 | Then there was the Kit-Cat Club , founded by Jacob Tonson in 1700 , which became a place where Whig politicians and men of letters met together on a regular basis . |
| 15 | There were cardboard boxes stuffed full of clothes standing everywhere on the dusty floor . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 17 | The moving pictures on the wall seemed to be of events occurring elsewhere on the planet , or in the universe , across the ages . |